Digital Innovation Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Digital Innovation
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Digital Innovation skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 89 - 114
Rank change year-on-year - - +23
Contract jobs citing Digital Innovation 4 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.31% - 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.34% - 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile £187 - £643
25th Percentile £190 - £669
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £219 - £725
75th Percentile £347 - £769
90th Percentile £409 - £788
England median daily rate £450 £531 £550
% change year-on-year -15.29% -3.41% -4.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East of England

Digital Innovation falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,174 1,242 1,621
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 89.55% 81.93% 87.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 506 448 874
10th Percentile £200 £199 £221
25th Percentile £385 £306 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £596 £550 £623
90th Percentile £688 £638 £725
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 318 356 367
10th Percentile £14.38 £14.84 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.26 £15.62 £14.25
Median hourly rate £22.82 £40.00 £19.81
Median % change year-on-year -42.96% +101.92% -5.67%
75th Percentile £60.00 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £67.50 £77.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.85
% change year-on-year -41.51% -1.94% +51.21%

Digital Innovation
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing Digital Innovation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for Digital Innovation in the East of England

Digital Innovation
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Digital Innovation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Digital Innovation

Digital Innovation
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Digital Innovation in the East of England over the 6 months to 26 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Digital Innovation in the East of England

Digital Innovation
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Digital Innovation within the East of England region over the 6 months to 26 September 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Hertfordshire - 3 £219 - 9
Cambridgeshire - 1 - - 1
Digital Innovation
England

Digital Innovation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) ChatGPT
1 1 (25.00%) Google Workspace
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Copilot
1 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (25.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Power BI
General
1 1 (25.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Business Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Salesforce Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Midjourney
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Computer Science
1 2 (50.00%) CRM
2 1 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (25.00%) Building Information Modelling
2 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Culture
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (25.00%) Customer-Centricity
2 1 (25.00%) Data Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Presales
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Google
1 1 (25.00%) Salesforce
1 1 (25.00%) SAP